Tags: URBAN

Urban Transit: 5 Cool Ways to Travel Around Mexico City Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the hemisphere. So it makes sense that this sprawling metropolis requires a rather extensive mass transit system, as well as other diverse ways to get around town. During my most recent visit to search for ……

An Historic Mexico City Street May Become a Highline-Style Urban Greenway A rendering of the proposed Cultural Corridor Chapultepec, which would create a layer of connective parkland atop on of Mexico City's most famous roadways. All images courtesy FR-EE. Turning abandoned railroad lines into urban walkways has helped … Read more on Curbed National

Understanding Mexico: Reading Between Mexico City's Urban Narratives Cities can often be conceived as an urban narrative expressing a national reality. They reflect a true image of the society that constructed them and frame the power logics imprinted upon their inhabitants interactions. The unconscious dialectic … Read more on Diplomatic Courier

Can multi-million-dollar makeover soften Mexico City's urban sprawl? MEXICO CITY — The plan is as big as this mammoth city: Turn a seedy metro hub into Mexico City's Times Square; clear swarms of feisty vendors and remodel the historic Alameda Central; illuminate the plazas and walkways of a park twice the size of New ……

URBAN EARTH is a project to (re)present our habitat by walking across some of Earth’s biggest urban areas. The media distorts the way we see our world(s) with stereotypical images highlighting the most extremes of places. URBAN EARTH aims to expose what our cities really look like away from the bias and spin of commercial…